Month: February 2021

Pride and Prejudice is both two centuries old and English, making it an excellent subject for an exercise in normalization. Time to see what happens when we algorithmically replace words with their most commonly used synonyms. Original: Mr. Bingley was…

Now that we’ve examined some of the individual words that best define Pride and Prejudice let’s try to identify the sentences with the most unique word choices. To start we will look for sentences which are relatively unique. We calculate…

Pride and Prejudice is over two hundred years old and so it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that it uses quite a few (85 by my criteria) “old fashioned” words that rarely appear in modern english but were…

Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice is pretty much the golden standard for what defines an enjoyable romance. An intelligent, beautiful and well-off woman meets an intelligent, handsome and ridiculously rich man. They get off on the wrong foot, slowly come…